After an encouraging Friday practice the Williams F1 team would hope to see things move forward. Saturday practice would get underway with a rush of drivers coming out onto the track while for the Williams team Pastor Maldonado would lead out Bruno Senna. The last four drivers would leave the pits as others returned after their installation lap. Several drivers would complete two installation laps with the last driver to come out been Alonso. Both Pastor and Bruno were back in the Williams pit for their usual checks. Everyone had been out on the medium tyre with the first driver to come back out was Kobayashi followed by Karthikeyan and Pic. Kobayashi would set the first time a 1m:49.193. Glock was next out joined by Petrov.

Both Lotus cars would come out joined by Perez. More drivers would start to come out for their first runs including Bruno for Williams. Kobayashi would set a 1m:45.628 while Karthikeyan was second. Glock would set a 1m:47.968 to be second as Pastor took to the track with just under forty five minutes remaining. Ricciardo was also out as Perez went second, 1m:46.178, followed by Glock and Petrov. Raikkonen was now fastest with a 1m:44.654 with Ricciardo fourth. Bruno had set a 1m:49.800 on his first slow lap. Hamilton was out on the track along with Schumacher as Grosjean moved up to second, 1m:44.829. Perez was now third from Kobayashi and Pastor now fifth, 1m:45.762. Perez was now second, 1m:44.821, as Bruno started a quicker lap. Rosberg would head out as Bruno completed his lap with a 1m:44.349 to be fourth.

This would become fifth as Hamilton went fastest with a 1m:44.264. Pastor was now eighth but on a better lap seeing him set a 1m:43.979 to be fastest. With thirty five minutes remaining the order was Pastor from Hamilton, Raikkonen, Massa, Grosjean, Perez, and Bruno seventh. Hamilton was on a quicker lap going fastest in sectors one and two. He would finish with a 1m:42.851 to lead Pastor by 1.128 seconds. Schumacher was now third, 1m:44.128, and Hulkenberg seventh. Both Bruno and Pastor would pit after their first runs. We now had Webber, Button, and Alonso out on the track for their first runs. Hulkenberg would improve to be third, 1m:44.117, as Webber jumped up to be fifth, 1m:44.214. Rosberg was now tenth with Pastor and Bruno currently second and eighth. Webber would push Pastor down one place as he set a 1m:43.849 to be second and Pastor now third.

Hamilton was on an even quicker lap seeing him set a 1m:42.481. Alonso was now in tenth while Hulkenberg would improve to be second with a 1m:43.786. Force India team-mate Di Resta was now seventh, 1m:44.192, while the only driver yet to set a time was Vettel with twenty five minutes remaining. Alonso would go quicker to be third with a 1m:43.634. Hamilton continue to put in quicker laps setting a 1m:42.148 still running on the harder tyre. Both Pastor and Bruno had left their pits with Bruno out on the soft tyre. Hamilton would pit as Button went second with a 1m:42.879. Vettel was still in his pit with his mechanics working on his car. Grosjean was also on the soft tyre with the track now very busy. Alonso was now third with a 1m:43.517 while Webber was on a quicker lap. Webber would back off in the final sector while Bruno's first lap on the softer tyre was not very quick.

Grosjean was able to use his soft tyres to good effect to set a 1m:43.261 to be third. Pastor would also improve to be fourth with a1m:43.340. Vettel's mechanics were now changing his front brake calipers while for Williams Bruno had set a 1m:44.071 to be tenth. Pastor had pitted after his run with Massa now eighth, 1m:43.880. Schumacher and Rosberg were now tenth and eleventh with Bruno now twelfth and back in his garage. With twelve minutes remaining there were only a handful of cars out on the track with Rosberg having moved up to eighth, 1m:43.846. The track was now empty with ten minutes remaining. Drivers would start to return to the track including Pastor who was on his first soft tyre run. Bruno would join more drivers taking to the track all looking to complete their qualifying simulations. Pastor would lock up right front tyre on his first run but would back off in the last sector.

Perez was up to seventh, 1m:43.571, while Webber would go fastest in sector two but would only improve to be third, 1m:42.743. Vettel would leave the pit lane on the soft tyre. Raikkonen was up to fifth as Hamilton went fastest in sector one and two. Button would improve with a 1m:42.420 to remain second. Pastor was now seventh and Bruno fifteenth as the final minutes counted down. Hamilton would finish with a 1m:42.130 to remain fastest. Alonso was now seventh, 1m:43.133, with Perez first to pit. Bruno was on a quicker lap but he would fail to improve after having set personal bests in the first two sectors. Hulkenberg was now fourth, 1m:42.750, but this would become fifth as Vettel move dup to third with a 1m:42.614. The session would come to an end with Hamilton fastest from Button, Vettel, Webber, Hulkenberg, Grosjean, Pastor, Alonso, Raikkonen, and Di Resta tenth.

A good result for Pastor but Bruno again struggled to match his team-mates pace. With his practice efforts it was looking promising for Pastor to make it into the final period of qualifying but for Bruno it was again looking like he would struggle to make it into the second.

Pos  Driver         	 Team		       Time      Laps
 1.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      1m42.130s 18
 2.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m42.420s 17
 3.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault      1m42.614s 7
 4.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault      1m42.743s 18
 5.  Nico Hulkenberg     Force India-Mercedes  1m42.750s 19
 6.  Romain Grosjean     Lotus-Renault         1m43.015s 18
 7.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault      1m43.064s 19
 8.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               1m43.133s 15
 9.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault         1m43.184s 22
10.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  1m43.338s 19
11.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari               1m43.480s 17
12.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        1m43.571s 20
13.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes              1m43.593s 20
14.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes              1m43.635s 19
15.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        1m44.010s 22
16.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m44.025s 18
17.  Bruno Senna         Williams-Renault      1m44.071s 19
18.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m44.149s 19
19.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault      1m45.301s 22
20.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth     1m45.879s 19
21.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth     1m46.036s 19
22.  Vitaly Petrov       Caterham-Renault      1m46.261s 22
23.  Pedro de la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth          1m46.554s 20
24.  Narain Karthikeyan  HRT-Cosworth          1m47.032s 22